On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 11:24:16 PM UTC-4, Siyuan Ren wrote:
>
> I tried to compile Crypto++ under OS X Yosemite with assembly enabled, and 
> got tons of incomprehensible compilation errors. Some of the earlier posts 
> had me believe that it was the fault of the outdated assembler which comes 
> with OS X, so I reported it as a potential bug to Apple. After several 
> conversions, they replied that
>
> This issue behaves as intended based on the following:
>>
>> The problem here is that the integrated assembler is more strict than gas(1) 
>> or as(1) on operand sizes. The "rdi" reference here is not valid for a MOVD 
>> instruction, with requires a 32-bit GPR register. Depending on what was 
>> intended by the code, either "movd edi, xmm0" or "movq rdi, xmm0" will be a 
>> correct fix.
>>
>> That is, this is a project bug that the compiler is correctly diagnosing. 
>> Previous assemblers incorrectly did not issue an error here.
>>
>> The diagnostic, however, is downright terrible with the huge blob of inline 
>> asm all being on one line like that. We will work on fixing that.
>>
>>
>> Oh, that's interesting.

I usually fail at a different point when trying to enable ASM on OS X (its 
related to Intel vs AT&T assembler).
 

> For example, in the source of gcm.cpp expanded by the preprocessor, there 
> are codes like
>
>   "psrldq xmm0" ", " "15" ";"
>>   "movd rdi" ", " "xmm0" ";"
>>   "movzx eax" ", " "WORD PTR [r10 + rdi*2]" ";"
>>   "shl eax" ", " "8" ";"
>
>
> Will these be fixed in future revisions?
>

Hopefully.

 The first step is reaching out through the mailing list. The second step 
is writing to Wei directly. See the bottom of the Crypto++ homepage 
(http://www.cryptopp.com/).

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